Akron Children's Hospital - Pacemaker - (2013)
These films have been filmed largely by the patients, the young patients. Meet Katherine, age 12, an avid dance student who was, as she puts it, "born with a hole in her heart and a bad valve." She has had 15 heart procedures, and will need care for the rest of her (potentially long) life. Her own footage, approximately one-third of the spot, shows her hard at work at ballet, cartwheels, cheerleading and tongue-sticking-out. Her dad describes her as "a Volkswagen engine in a NASCAR automobile" while she admits with a smile that she can probably beat all the other cars in the race anyway.
Tchaikovsky Flashwaltz at Hadassah Hospital 5:30 (2013) (Israel)
To celebrate the sixth annual Good Deeds Day, an International movement that started in Israel, The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance decided to hold a flash mob at Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower in Jerusalem.
Except it wasn't a flash mob so much as a flash waltz. They played Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of The Flowers," for doctors and patients alike.
Calling it a flash mob is also debatable, but it was a nice mitzvah anyway.
Volkswagen / VW Jetta - Baby - (2013) :30 (USA)
If you are going to have your life flash before your eyes... Wow, that was quick. Then again a baby hasn't been around much.
SickKids - You Got It - (2012) :30 (canada)
Picture this: A four year old leukemia patient braving the MRI table for his next scan. A newborn in an isolet hooked up to oxygen. A child being rushed to the emergency department by ambulance. A dad cradling his baby in a rocking chair in the baby’s hospital room. A teenage cancer patient in her bedroom putting on her wig. A mom and her son doing crafts in a hospital playroom in between his treatments.
NY Presbyterial Hospital - Heather McNamara / inoperable - (2011)
The spot ''Heather,'' centers on a 9-year-old Heather McNamara who speaks directly to the camera in manner that is in total contrast to the gravity of her situation. She speaks about her family’s search for a hospital around the country willing to operate on the baseball-sized cancerous tumor that had entangled itself in her stomach, pancreas, spleen, intestines, liver and surrounding blood vessels. She was considered inoperable by other doctors the family consulted until they met with Dr. Tomoaki Kato who removed 6 of Heather’s major organs in a 23-hour surgery in order to get at the tumor.
Vänsterpartiet - No Profit - Valfilm 2010
Vänsterpartiet - "The Left Party" - formerly known as Vänsterpartiet kommunisterna (VPK) which they changed in 1990 to simply "V" also promise more jobs, in a roundabout way. The VO says:
"Did you know that 3 billion kronor is earned as profit every year, by privately owned health care companies in Sweden? That is money that you and I pay to our joint health care. For that money, we can hire eight thousand nurses instead. We want to build the worlds best welfare state without private profit."
Yellow Pages Group - Yellow Pages Mobile App - Misinterpreted, Oily, Photocrasher (2010) :30
The new Yellow Pages Mobile App helps anybody find a local answer for whatever they might be looking for. In these commercials we put the app through a torture test by showing how three very distinctive characters use it to keep their life running smoothly.
Conflict Diamonds - Every Diamond tells a story - (2009) :60 (South Africa)
This PSA created by Y&R’s Cape Town office just won five Vuka! Awards (local South African awards). Every diamond has a story, and in this PSA their bloody history is illustrated with a doctor overseeing the reaping from the dead bodies in a makeshift hospital somewhere in a warzone.
Ponle Corazón - "Fé" - (2009) :60 (Peru)
In this spot for the Peruvian Cancer Society, a young boy sings as his health improves.
Sierra Mist - Hospital (2007) 0:30 (USA)
First Quarter
Philips - Neonatal Monitor - The Hardest Day (2005) 0:30 (USA)

McDonald's - World Children's Day (2003) - 0:30 (USA)
Xbox - Champagne / Life in fast motion (2002) :45 (UK)
Born like shot out of a champagne bottle, this person lives life fast.
Socialdemokraterna - Why should we care about each other? - (1985) :75 (Sweden)
Back when Socialdemkraterna were still called Socialdemokratiska arbetarpartiet they ran this film, directed by Roy Anderson and a typical example of his visual style. In it you'll see care of the elderly which is more like a storage facility, the biggest man wins a seat in a bar, a mothers purse is emptied of money when she brings her hurt child to the doctor, kids have to pay for school lunches, and people trample past someone who has fallen on the street with all his bags, instead of helping him. "Why should we care about each other?" asks the tagline.
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